Here’s a little tale for all those SPH fetish enthusiasts out there. A Helsinki study recently compared the average length of a chap’s erect winky with GDP per-capita. The results would appear to suggest that the rate of growth of a country’s economy is inversely proportional to its residents’ recorded penis size. I will say nothing on the subject except “ooh look, an impending recession!”
Here’s a snippet from GlobalPost.com:
“…Today, thanks to the world wide web and Google, those interested in either (or both) penis sizes and the global economy can find economic papers with titles like this: Male Organ and Economic Growth: Does Size Matter?
Written by Tatu Westling at the Helsinki Center for Economic Research (and, yes, we’re fact-checking), here’s the paper’s abstract:
This paper explores the link between economic development and penile length between 1960 and 1985. It estimates an augmented Solow model utilizing the Mankiw-Romer-Weil 121 country dataset. The size of male organ is found to have an inverse U-shaped relationship with the level of GDP in 1985. It can alone explain over 15% of the variation in GDP. The GDP maximizing size is around 13.5 centimetres, and a collapse in economic development is identified as the size of male organ exceeds 16 centimetres. Economic growth between 1960 and 1985 is negatively associated with the size of male organ, and it alone explains 20% of the variation in GDP growth. With due reservations it is also found to be more important determinant of GDP growth than country’s political regime type. Controlling for male organ slows convergence and mitigates the negative effect of population growth on economic development slightly. Although all evidence is suggestive at this stage, the `male organ hypothesis’ put forward here is robust to exhaustive set of controls and rests on surprisingly strong correlations…”
To further illustrate this story, the Huffington post supplies a handy graph, populated by dancing banana .gif images, and Target Map has a colour-coded map of the world that will tell you which countries have the largest (and smallest) average size of erection from one year to another. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to THE INTERNET.
